Melania

“I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her-they think of her as heartless, but she wasn't heartless. She was only aware of things which I didn't learn till so many decades had passed. She knew secrets that only suffering can teach...”
― Anne Rice, Merrick

“I have crossed oceans of time to find you.”
― James V. Hart, Bram Stoker's Dracula

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“The beautiful know they have power, and she had, in her diminutive charm, a certain power of which she was always casually aware.”
― Anne Rice, Merrick